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28 - she/they- 🏳️‍🌈a lot of horror and a lot of gay - https://twitter.com/FolleJoie/ NSFW ART- can't find the email for my other tumblr folle-de-joie sorry

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[hermanborealis]

Catch me cry laughing in the club this pride month 😂

[gang-with-hatz]

It's a free play, buddy. Clock's all zeroes. It's after the end of the world.

[billy-crudup]

This is for Ray. COOPER HOFFMAN and DAVID JONSSON as RAY GARRATY and PETE MCVRIES in THE LONG WALK (2025) dir. Francis Lawrence

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[mistressvera]

William Fichtner as Jasper and Nicholas Denton as Guy Anatole

TALAMASCA: THE SECRET ORDER S1.E5 ∙ The Puzzle Palace

[freshmoviequotes]

Goncharov (1973)

[theterrorpinup]

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[hermanborealis]

I’ve been buying this since lockdown and I love it when it comes out! And with all proceeds going to charity, its my favourite thing to buy at the end of the year :) if you’re into The Terror then this is a must must must! (If you want to, no pressure!)

[kylieminvogue]

"STAR TREK" S3E14 - "And the Children Shall Lead"

[slayerbuffy]

Häxan — 1922 dir. Benjamin Christensen

[thesoldiersminute]

Kyle Gallner The Passenger (2023) dir. Carter Smith

[boykavalier]

ALIEN: EARTH 1.03 "Metamorphosis"

[kitmarlowe]

“I have to say, dispassionately, I think Charlie and Stella is the spinoff we deserved. I would watch this for the rest of time.”

[hermanborealis]

What would really fix me is getting topped by a butch dream

[hermanborealis]

New flat - new me

Getting back on track and feeling more like myself, happy with myself and proud of my progress and want to get back on my creativity side of things now

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

[dollgirllandsknecht]

Hey tumblr why is this post marked mature?

[evilvvithin]

THE BLACK PHONE 2 (2025) trailer

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laura palmer

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[spookygirlfriend]

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

you could bring this post back to the late 90s and it would be exactly as funny as it is now. no elements of it exist now that did not then